Title : The strange and comical journey of my mother into amnesia - Michel Mompontet - book

Summary :

" My mother (89 years old) is not losing her mind. She just lets it wander further and further away, to strange lands, often disturbing, threatening, but sometimes wonderfully poetic. Precious nuggets in her debacle that amuse and enchant us as much as she does me ."
This is how Michel Mompontet began writing "The Journey into Amnesia," for himself alone and so as not to lose anything of Geneviève's final moments. From his notes, he created a rare book that speaks to each of us. Can we retain time and memories that evaporate? Is love an antidote to memory pathologies? What remains when our brain "flees like a balloon in the azure," when "our mind is crossed by drafts"?
Michel Mompontet's story is charged with emotion but it is not sad. He delivers a magnificent filial story and an unforgettable portrait of a woman. Geneviève, a solid Gascon who has lost none of her sense of humor, fights against the evil that is eating away at her with astonishing resources, and often hilarious energy. Her son, Michel, and his allies (devoted nurses, humane doctors, compassionate neighbors but also garden trees, butterflies, stars) strive to find solutions, invent incredible stratagems to counter his main enemy (the formidable Alzheimer's) as well as a cohort of other adversaries (greedy insurers, vindictive aunt, ghosts and unspoken family secrets). So while he believes he has only returned to the Landes village of his childhood to save his mother, it is also with his own past and its shadowy areas that he will reconnect.

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